New and popular EMC Isilon Support content for September 2015

Check out the new and popular EMC Isilon customer support content for September. Each month I’ll post a summary of newly published content for Isilon customers, as well as the Isilon Top 10’s:

  • Top 10 Knowledgebase articles
  • Top 10 Customer Support documents
  • Top 10 Isilon Info Hubs

New Isilon support content

Here are links to new customer support content that was published in September 2015. Enjoy!

CONTENT TYPE

LINK AND DESCRIPTION

Cluster Talk Podcast Episode 7: Chris goes layers deep into the technology behind Solid State Drive (SSD) capacity. Gobbled from the Feed covers the “important topics” of how Big Data improves both football and beer, culminating when Scott challenges Chris with a Lightning Round pop quiz covering all past episodes. Cool Commands introduces an elite “underscore” command, and the co-hosts discover happiness in a) more football, and b) Mr. Robot.
Cluster Talk Podcast Podcast: Cluster Talk Hub: Looking for all the Cluster Talk podcasts? You’ll find them here.
Isilon Community (ECN) Blog OneFS: Distributed write transactions and two-phase commit
Isilon Community (ECN) Blog MGetting Flash – OneFS SSD Strategy Comparison
Isilon Community (ECN) Blog Isilon Customer Troubleshooting Guides
Isilon Community (ECN) Blog Faster and Deeper: Splunk on EMC
Isilon Community (ECN) Blog Multiprotocol Concepts Series Part 2: Access tokens, user mapping, and ID mapping
White paper (Requires login to EMC online support) OneFS Read Cache Latency
Info Hub Customer Troubleshooting – Isilon Info Hub
Info Hub Current OneFS Patches – Isilon Info Hub

Top 10 Knowledgebase Articles

Here are September’s top 10 most-viewed Knowledgebase articles, including ETAs and ESAs.

  1. ETA 199379: Isilon OneFS: Security update MS15-027 may cause data to be unavailable to SMB clients that are authenticated to Isilon clusters through an Active Directory server that relies on the NTLM authentication protocol (199379)
  2. OneFS: How to reset the CELOG database and clear all historical events (16586)
  3. How to collect node information, including log files (16763)
  4. ETA 202452: Isilon OneFS: Nodes that have run for 497 consecutive days may restart without warning (202452)
  5. OneFS: Best practices for NFS client settings (90041)
  6. OneFS: How to safely shut down an Isilon cluster prior to a scheduled power outage (16529)
  7. UPDATE: ETA 193819: EMC Isilon nodes: Mars-K+ drives may stop responding and be automatically smartfailed from Isilon nodes (193819)
  8. How to upload files to Isilon Technical Support (16759)
  9. OneFS: How to create SPN accounts to allow Kerberos authentication using SmartConnect DNS entries (16528)
  10. OneFS: Troubleshooting performance issues

Top 10 Customer Support Documents

Here are September’s most popular Customer Support documents.

  1. Current Isilon Software Releases
  2. Insight IQ 3.2 Installation Guide
  3. Isilon Supportability and Compatibility Guide
  4. Current Isilon OneFS Patches
  5. InsightIQ 3.2.1 Release Notes
  6. InsightIQ 3.2 User Guide
  7. OneFS 7.2.0 CLI Administration Guide
  8. Isilon OneFS 7.1.1.0 – 7.1.1.7 Release Notes
  9. Isilon Product Availability
  10. OneFS 7.2.0 Web Administration Guide

Top 10 Isilon Info Hubs

Last but not least, here are your favorite Info Hubs for all of September.

  1. OneFS Upgrades
  2. Customer Troubleshooting
  3. Isilon Uptime
  4. Isilon Info Hubs
  5. Hadoop
  6. OneFS 7.2 Documentation
  7. OneFS 7.2.1 Documentation
  8. Superna Eyeglass with SyncIQ
  9. OneFS API
  10. InsightIQ

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